Backend Engineer

About the Role

Your focus will be to contribute to the development, architecture, and evolution of the Peakon platform.

You will be a key contributor in technical and architectural discussions within the backend engineering team, working closely with peers and engineering leaders to drive the technical direction of our platform forward.

Additionally, you will spend part of your time collaborating with peers, through regular code reviews and pair programming.

As part of the Peakon team at Workday, you'll:

• Be an integral member of a cross-functional team in an agile environment
• Collaborate with other engineers, designers, the team’s product manager and QAs to build and deliver impactful features for senior leaders at enterprise-level companies who use Peakon
• Regularly review and discuss other engineer’s code to find the best solution for the problem at hand
• Participate in discussions with other engineers about the future of back-end at Peakon
• Use your technical expertise to contribute towards building a best-in-class product

Our tech

We make it a priority to stay on the cutting edge of tech. We are highly motivated by learning and growing in our roles, and constantly evolving is a key part of that.

We believe there is great value in a shared toolchain, which is why our tech stack centres around JavaScript, with Node.js on the server and React on the frontend. Some tasks are better solved with different tools, and thus we use Python for the data science parts of the system.

We are primarily hosted on Heroku and AWS, with a growing number of our services moving to the latter. We use PostgreSQL (through RDS), Redis and ElasticSearch for storage.

We rely heavily on automated testing on all levels of the application, with thousands of tests checking every commit to our code base.

We use Buildkite for continuous integration to make sure our most recent changes are always available to test, and we deploy code to our production environment every day.

• You are an engineer at heart, who loves to tinker and build things
• You stay up to date on the latest technology trends, and are able to pick the right technology for the every challenge
• You have experience operating and maintaining medium to large scale web applications built with Node.js
• You have a product mindset and enjoy experimenting to find innovative solutions to customer needs
• You have a good understanding of agile product development and what it takes to bring a product from idea into the hands of customers 
• You’re a team player who strives to better not only themselves, but everyone around them
• You are looking for an opportunity to grow your career in a fast-moving, growing company, and help shape the engineering culture and the technologies behind it.
• You are you! We want you to bring your true self to work, so you can help us shape the engineering culture within the Peakon team at Workday!